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Quotes About Actions

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
~ Tom Shadyac
Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
~ Elizabeth I
To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
~ Kevin Heath
Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.
~ Jay Asher
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
~ Countee Cullen
Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.
~ Shems Friedlander
Men don't respond to words. They respond to no contact.
~ Sherry Argov
I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances.
~ Sherry Thomas
In the world of fancy even the most base man's actions sometimes take on the forms of beauty. Dim pathways do sometimes open before the eyes of the man who has not killed the possibilities of beauty in himself by being too sure.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.
~ Sherwood Smith
Resistance, which is a cousin of fear, manifests as feeling too lazy, scared, or tired to engage in the practices or actions that you know will serve your higher self.
~ Sheryl Paul
Positive attitude with positive actions supported by efforts increases the possibility of your success.
~ Shiv Khera
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
~ Siddha Nagarjuna
But the point of a 'human error' investigation is to understand why people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given their context, and without knowledge of outcome, not to point out what they should have done instead.
~ Sidney Dekker
The main question for a just culture is not about matching consequences with outcome. It is this: Did the assessments and actions of the professionals at the time make sense, given their knowledge, their goals, their attentional demands, their organizational context?
~ Sidney Dekker
If he controls your ideas he will soon control your actions, because every action is preceded by an idea.
~ Silvano Arieti
What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?
~ Silvia Hartmann
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. ?Tis better that a man?s own works than another man?s words should praise him.
~ Sir R L?Estrange
People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts
~ Siri Hustvedt
...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love.
~ Karen Salmansohn
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
~ Albert Einstein
Talk is cheep. Love is priceless.
~ Jon Jones
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
~ Bernie Siegel